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    This document provides 20 example sentences and asks the reader to choose whether the past simple or past continuous tense should be used to complete each sentence. The sentences cover a variety of situations involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past. They also include questions about what someone was doing or what was happening at a specific past time.

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    This document provides 20 example sentences and asks the reader to choose whether the past simple or past continuous tense should be used to complete each sentence. The sentences cover a variety of situations involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past. They also include questions about what someone was doing or what was happening at a specific past time.

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    Choose The Past Simple or Past Continuous: Ex. 1

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    This document provides 20 example sentences and asks the reader to choose whether the past simple or past continuous tense should be used to complete each sentence. The sentences cover a variety of situations involving actions that were ongoing or completed in the past. They also include questions about what someone was doing or what was happening at a specific past time.

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    Choose the past simple or past continuous:

    Ex. 1
    1. What ________________________ (you / do) when I ________________________ (call) you last
    night?

    2. I ________________________ (sit) in a café when you ________________________ (call).

    3. When you ________________________ (arrive) at the party, who ________________________ (be)


    there?

    4. Susie ________________________ (watch) a film when she ________________________ (hear) the


    noise.

    5. Yesterday I ________________________ (go) to the library, next I ________________________


    (have) a swim, later I ________________________ (meet) Julie for a coffee.

    6. We ________________________ (play) tennis when John ________________________ (hurt) his


    ankle.

    7. What ________________________ (they / do) at 10pm last night? It ________________________


    (be) really noisy.

    8. He ________________________ (take) a shower when the telephone ________________________


    (ring).

    9. He ________________________ (be) in the shower when the telephone


    ________________________ (ring).

    10. When I ________________________ (walk) into the room, everyone ________________________


    (work).

    Ex. 2
    11. It ________________________ (be) a day last September. The sun ________________________
    (shine), the birds ________________________ (sing). I ________________________ (walk) along the
    street when I ________________________ (meet) an old friend.

    12. He ________________________ (live) in Russia when the Revolution ________________________


    (start).

    13. When her train ________________________ (get) to the station, we ________________________


    (wait) on the platform.
    14. He ________________________ (be) so annoying! He ________________________ (always / leave)
    his things everywhere.

    15. On holiday we ________________________ (visit) Rome, ________________________ (see) the


    Vatican, and ________________________ (spend) a few days at the beach.

    16. Why ________________________ (you / stand) on a chair when I ________________________


    (come) into the room?

    17. They ________________________ (live) in Germany when they ________________________ (be)


    young.

    18. At 7pm yesterday, we ________________________ (listen) to music.

    19. When I ________________________ (leave) the house, it ________________________ (snow).

    20. He ________________________ (work) in a bank when he ________________________ (meet) his


    wife.

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